Example sentences of "quite so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the period covered by this book society was not quite so hierarchical as before or after ; nor did a man 's place in the sun depend on the number and dignity of his ancestors . |
| 2 | With job production , losing an order is not quite so critical because , providing the firm is being correctly represented , it should be invited to quote for the next order and perhaps be successful then . |
| 3 | This caused me to run out of aft trim i.e. I could n't take my hands off — and she did n't feel quite so rock-like and stable coming down the last few hundred feet , but the resulting touchdown was smoother and shorter . |
| 4 | Now if we take it just one step further , there was a lady well there still is a lady called and she did some research , what she was trying to look at was the the sort of body language if you like the actions that people er use and associate that to their personality and she looked particularly at people who were open positive communicators truthful I suppose but people who were open communicators and looked at the sort of things they did and also at people who perhaps were n't quite so honest and open and truthful . |
| 5 | They were n't quite so stupid as to believe wholly their own propaganda . |
| 6 | There is also the problem of breaking with tradition ; the House of Lords is accustomed to having the assistance of judgments from the Court of Appeal following full and careful consideration of detailed argument on the points of principle involved in an atmosphere which , though busy , is not quite so frenetic as that of the High Court . |
| 7 | As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant . |
| 8 | At first she used a more rigid approach , along the lines of her training in Coburg , then gradually adapted and developed this to suit the English students who were not quite so young and athletic as their German counterparts ! |
| 9 | Nothing had ever felt quite so right as finding herself in Nevil 's arms and being kissed by him . |
| 10 | Often she had wondered if she would have been quite so successful if she had n't thrown herself so totally into her work in a desperate attempt to mend her broken heart . |
| 11 | He wished his tongue was n't quite so dry and that the skin round his neck did n't feel so very tight . |
| 12 | Did n't realize she was going quite so early but I suppose it 's hardly early anyway now . |
| 13 | When the accompanying chords are detached , it is not necessary to make the melodic line quite so powerful as it has to be to come through a mass of sustained harmony . |
| 14 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 15 | The term ‘ deeds of family arrangement ’ is not now quite so appropriate because they are increasingly used as tax-planning vehicles , and they will continue to be effective unless the Government repeals those provisions in the Inheritance Tax Act 1984 that permit the variations . |
| 16 | In fact , Hayzen 's policy implications may not be quite so relevant as they may at first seem . |
| 17 | ‘ But clever though the cruel invaders were , they were not quite so clever as they believed . |
| 18 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 19 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 20 | Although much of the mapping is relatively straightforward to automate because it is rule based , there are exceptions and therefore the mapping in a real database application is not quite so straightforward as implied here . |
| 21 | Nowadays theologians are n't quite so straightforward as Paley . |
| 22 | I suppose I need n't have quite so many but er I quite like doing it . |
| 23 | He made 829 runs in four matches ( he missed the Lord 's Test through illness ) in 1976 , which was statistically his best performance , and if he has never made quite so many since that must just be because of the demands , physical and psychological , of playing so much top cricket . |
| 24 | I do n't think that 's quite so good and why because of its evident ab absence of the note of urgency and its lack of specifics . |
| 25 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
| 26 | Daryl tried to imitate all they did , she was good to , but not quite so good as they were , but she was quite fearless and divide of the highest diving board and went down a chute in all kinds of peculiar position . |
| 27 | Her vision of a happy life in Santa Barbara would n't be quite so blissful if Miguel were not resident in Casa Madrid . |
| 28 | The approach to management is not quite so lackadaisical as it once was , but there is still a long way to go , particularly in employment policies within the companies . |
| 29 | The version here is his next to last , and although inimitable in a way , it is not quite so feather-light and magical as some of the other accounts . |
| 30 | No one familiar with the performance of domestic industry in most countries outside and some inside the First World would be surprised by this but , even so , one might wonder why the figures for local sourcing are quite so low when local materials and components are available . |